re: Jimmy Swaggart’s Church in BR

I enjoyed his appearance with the Church Lady

thats supposed to be the Bakkers

That was Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker

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Bluebonnet was kind of the sticks at the time. Now we have rappers getting shot right down the street though.

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Pre-JSM, we used to ride dirt bikes all up and down Bluebonnet and up in the fields before they paved it.

As for Swags before the scandal, it was huge. I went to a youth church called Crossfire for a bit after the main church moved into the new sanctuary. Crossfire would meet at the old sanctuary. When the main church moved to the new sanctuary things kind of started to take on a different vibe that I really didn’t care for, one more of pomp and circumstance than what I liked at the old church which was more down to earth, and significantly less showy. Jimmy then became more of a star attraction when he was in town and not on a crusade. People started to say stuff like “oh brother Jimmy this” and “brother Jimmy that” and that never really sat well with me. It bordered on hero worship sometimes, and I wasn’t there for Jimmy as I was for Jesus. In any case, Swag knows scripture like the back of his hand, and I respect him for that, but I still have no real interest in going back there.

He had a branch office on AIRLINE in Kenner that I hear was fun.

thats supposed to be the Bakkers


Bakker's? I guess 3K's would be much too obvious.

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He was building a college there.

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He had enough enrolment at the college to to warrant placement on signage on the interstate. After that second scandal, I remember the news covering them taking down that sign because the enrollment dropped below some magic number.

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Bluebonnet was kind of the sticks at the time. Now we have rappers getting shot right down the street though.

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Yep.

I remember when there wasn’t much on Bluebonnet besides Swaggart’s church and a few other buildings. On Saturday nights my family used to go out to eat. One night my parents wanted to try this “new place” near Swaggart’s complex called they’d heard about from their friends called…Subway.

A few years after I graduated HS a guy I graduated with and was friends with started going there. I hadn't seen him since a few months after graduating then all of a sudden he would stop by my house.

It was almost like a process he was advice to do in order to "save" people. First time he came, everything was cool then he drops the whole "I have been attending Jimmy Swaggart (or whatever his church is called" Tells me I need to go check out out with him sometime.

Several days later he stopped by, he burned a few CDs for me where I could really hear the message in the music. About a week later he comes over and asked what I thought about the CDs and he would be glad to talk about them with me. That's when I told him I had no interest whatsoever in listening to them. I said I would check them out just to be nice, but I am not going to waste his time.

He seemed taken back, I gave him his CDs and said its nothing personal, I still consider him a friend but I am not talking about that shite with him. Have not seen or heard from him since.

As for as what its like, probably like every other scam artist preacher.